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Hypnosis For Advanced Sports Performance

by Dan Regan | Jul 29, 2021 | Sports Improvement

Hypnosis For Advanced Sports Performance

The Olympics and Paralympics have been and gone and the football season is now in full swing once again. In this article, I’m covering a brief, research-based technique that can help with improving sports performance. It can be applied to most sports to help you with your mindset and goal achievement.

I’ve still been busy with my high intensity bootcamps, although my achillies’ niggle continues to prevent me from getting back into running properly. However, every cloud has a silver lining and so I’ve had more time to work on strength and to take part in some pretty intense and gruelling personal training sessions (the suffering has got to be worth it, right?!). The goal is to be much stronger and more resilient by the time my running resumes and, in the meantime, to make the most of the extra time and energy to train hard and train well.

So without further ado, lets take a look at the benefits and support for hypnosis for sports performance, and how you can use this to boost your mindset and find that extra level of attainment and performance towards your sporting goals.

Hypnosis Downloads: New Titles Now Available

by Dan Regan | Jul 27, 2021 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Hypnosis Downloads: New Titles Now Available

It’s been great to have another opportunity to get into the studio and create some brand new hypnosis downloads to help and support you.

Many of my new titles are based on research and evidence to support them, as well as building upon my sessions with clients over the last decade or so. There are new hypnosis downloads to help with increasing confidence, staying focussed on your weight loss journey, reducing distress from past events, enjoying a sense of calmness, experiencing increased gratitude and well-being, and for taking positive action on your goals so that you live a fulfilling life without regret.

Naturally all of my ‘classics’ are still available too to help with anxiety, confidence, self-esteem, weight loss and stress. These are always popular with my clients and there are some lovely reviews over on my shop too.

So let me introduce the new members of my hypnosis download collection…

Fear of Flying Help and Support

by Dan Regan | Jul 10, 2021 | Phobias and Fears

Fear of Flying Help and Support

It’s great to be back up and running with helping you to overcome your fear of flying!

During the pandemic pretty much nobody was flying anywhere. Now that things are opening up and holidays and trips abroad have become more feasible again, those of you with a flying fear may be in need of some help and support.

As well as my one-to-one hypnotherapy sessions (in Ely, Newmarket and online), our successful fear of flying course is back up and running in Mildenhall. This fantastic course involves information, understanding and coping tools, as well as a hypnotherapy session and an experience in the flight simulator.

Hypnosis For Performance In Air Rifle Shooting Competition

by Dan Regan | Jul 6, 2021 | Sports Improvement

Hypnosis For Performance In Air Rifle Shooting Competition

I work with many people to help them with aspects of sports psychology and improving their performance. It’s always a joy to work with people who have such passion, drive and motivation to get better at what they do.

Frustratingly, my own running has had to take a back seat recently with a couple of persistent minor niggles keeping me away from it. Thankfully high intensity bootcamp training has continued, albeit with modifications to avoid running and jumping, or anything else that could over stress my ankle or achillies right now.

To try and counter these niggles and make me more injury-proof in future, I’ve started some personal training sessions to go alongside my bootcamps. I always find it amazing how you can feel relatively fit and strong doing certain familiar exercises, only to take on something new and feel like a complete novice. After a session today I don’t think my body knows what has hit it! The muscle soreness tomorrow may be off the chart… Yet it’s all an opportunity to learn, adapt, get fitter and stronger, and come back into running all the better for having gone through this shock to the system.

Recently I’ve been working with an air rifle shooter to help them to enhance their performance and boost their confidence and self-belief ready for competition. And as part of my research and session preparation, I came acress a research paper that specifically looked into the use of hypnosis on performance in air rifle shooting competitions.

Hypnosis and Mindfulness For Weight Loss Success

by Dan Regan | Jun 3, 2021 | Weight Loss

Hypnosis and Mindfulness For Weight Loss Success

Many people live their lives in a constant state of battle with their eating choices and their weight. Unhealthy habits, food cravings and overeating can all combine to impact upon your weight and to mean that, even if you lose weight, you find yourself frustratingly putting it all back on again.

Many people have also found that that pandemic-related stress and changes to usual pattens led to eating more, drinking more and putting on weight. Many people have told me how they have found themselves engaging in more mindless eating, increasing the quantity of food they eat and using food and eating to cope with things.

And it’s not only recent events that can have impacted upon your weight. Many people endure a lifetime of struggling with their weight and not feeling comfortable in their own body. You may try a whole range of diets, lose some weight, only to put it back on again, binge eat, emotionally eat or just have an unhealthy relationship with food, which in turn means your weight goes up.

As well as diet and exercise, addressing the psychological aspects of eating is vital if you want to achieve weight loss and reach the weight, size and shape that you desire. You need to develop control, be able to manage your emotions effectively, be able to encourage yourself and learn healhty eating habits, thinking and behaviours. All of this is certainly possible with an approach such as weight loss hypnotherapy, and recent evidence has looked into the effectiveness of hypnosis and mindfulness strategies for successful weight loss.

Hypnosis For Pain Relief and Management

by Dan Regan | Jun 1, 2021 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Hypnosis For Pain Relief and Management

Pain is one of the most debilitating and limiting things that you can suffer with. Not only do you have the discomfort from the pain itself, but you can also find that as a result you struggle with other, linked, issues such as anxiety, depression, fear and worry. Chronic pain can cause huge amounts of suffering, interference with your usual activities and other limitations on your life. Even short term pain can lead to unwanted negative thoughts and emotions, and other psychological distress.

Pain can be experienced in many ways and can affect people differently. There can be chronic pain or that which is more short term. There can be pain that you know will ease and reduce, or pain that you have to adjust to and live with. Pain can be experienced and described as throbbing, burning, stabbing, sharp, dull. All pain though comes with the physical element and a psychological component.

Of course, no psychological therapy, such as hypnosis, should replace seeking appropriate medical support to examine and assess your pain. Yet perhaps amongst all pain relief approaches and strategies, hypnosis for pain relief and management is one of the most overlooked, despite the research that exists.

Running Psychology and Performance

by Dan Regan | May 29, 2021 | Sports Improvement

Running Psychology and Performance

I’ve been busy increasing my running distances over recent weeks as I prepare for an ultramarathon later in the year (which is more likely to be an extended jog while eating cake!). This, as well as all of the runners and sportspeople I work with, has naturally led me to go into more depth about running psychology and how hypnosis helps. In this article I’m bringing together several of my recent posts so that you can find them all in one place.

My training took a bit of a hit a few weeks ago, due to side effects from the covid jab, which led to all sorts of unwell and fatigue for a week or so. Thankfully, since then my training at bootcamp and with my running seems to have returned to pre-jab levels.

This past weekend I went out and ran fifteen and a half miles around Ely and down the riverbank. It was a sweltering hot day than had me wishing quite quickly that I had got up at least an hour earlier to get more done before the sun came out. Running along the riverbank trails is one of my favourite routes right now, and on a pleasantly warm day (not a heatwave!) it is a joy to see the wildlife and to be around nature.

I’ve been busy checking out races for later in the year and have a good idea of the ones I’d like to do once I have summer training under my belt. It’ll be strange to enter a race and be there on the start line with other runners (complete with the aroma of deep heat!), after so long away from it. I can’t wait!

In the meantime, as well as running, I’m continuing to investigate, research and write more and more about running psychology. Hypnosis can help you in so many ways with your running psychology and improving your running performance. Recently I’ve been working with runners on issues like motivation, running anxiety, running confidence and more. Knowing what it takes to train, persist, turn up on the day and complete a race, means I love helping other runners with all aspects of running psychology, such as finding more enjoyment, positivity, confidence and self-belief in their running, as well as improving their running performance.

So here are some running psychology resources that you can start incorporating into your running from today…

Boost Your Well-being and Reduce Negative Thoughts and Feelings

by Dan Regan | May 29, 2021 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Boost Your Well-being and Reduce Negative Thoughts and Feelings

I hope you are keeping safe and doing well. It’s hard to believe how quickly this year is racing by! I hope that you have been able to stay safe and healthy during lockdown and the pandemic, and that you are doing well as things open back up again. And if you’ve had your jab then I hope you didn’t suffer as much as I did for the few days after mine!

One of the best things about lockdown easing is that, as effective as online hypnotherapy continues to be, it’s wonderful to be able to now meet people in person at my locations in Ely and Newmarket. Welcome back! I’ve missed you!

Outside work I’ve been keeping busy with my running and continuing to learn the guitar, as well as having lots of fun with my girls (and the odd stern word too!). Within work, I’ve had time to write many articles that can help you to boost your sense of well-being, positivity and optimism, as well as helping you to reduce anxious and negative thoughts and feelings. I’ve highlighted a few of these later on in this article to bring them together in one place for you.

Anxiety: Being Aware And Acceptance of Anxiety

by Dan Regan | May 24, 2021 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Anxiety: Being Aware And Acceptance of Anxiety

This past weekend we took a family trip to the zoo, our first visit there for quite some time. One thing I love about being around animals, whether in the zoo or in nature, is how watching them has a way of taking you mentally away from all the busyness that can otherwise occupy your mind. Away from screens, household chores, things to do for work and so forth, you can get some positive mental clearness and space.

Listening to the sounds of the animals, watching them move and interact, and noticing the vast array of colours and sounds is a really beneficial mindful experience. On top of that, spending quality time with the kids is always guaranteed to bring amusement and fun. There were flamingos, tigers, camels, penguins, sea lions and a vast array of other animal and birds on display and it was a really great day out.

Now, of course, it’s possible to find some ‘escape’ in many other situations and places, and I’ve written before about the many benefits of time in nature and natural settings for supporting your mental health. And, of course, you can practice mindfulness type approaches from the comfort of your own home too. Both mindfulness and hypnosis have been shown to be able to help you to reduce anxiety and stress, and combining the two together can also bring you fantastic results for anxiety reduction.

In many cases of anxiety reduction, you are learning how to interrupt, reduce and deal effectively with the anxious thoughts and feelings that had been causing you so much despair and discomfort. Learning how to regulate emotions effetively means that you aren’t overwhelmed by anxiety and worry. Finding effective ways to control your thinking means you can disengage from anxious thoughts, dispute them, block them or just find yourself thinking more along the kind of lines you would wish to. As you learn how to direct, control and calm your thoughts, feelings and behaviours, you will find yourself feeling better and staying that way.

All too often, because of the uncomfortable anxious thoughts and feelings, it can become a battle inside your own head and body. You don’t want the anxiety and so you engage in it and try and fight it and suppress it. That inner battle, fight, frustration and stress can inadvertently add to the anxiety and leave you feeling worse and feeling like you’ll never be able to find a way to feel better. You try to suppress your anxiety and you find yourself feeling even worse. This is where approaches, such as mindfulness hypnosis, can really help. By accepting the thoughts and feelings, you weaken them and they pass quicker. You learn how to notice them, observe them, and have the ability to calmly and confidently carry on with things. You become an expert at successful emotional regulation and being at peace inside of your own head.

Developing a Positive Mindset: Turning Negative Thoughts To Positive

by Dan Regan | May 20, 2021 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Developing a Positive Mindset: Turning Negative Thoughts To Positive

Could you do with developing a more positive mindset? Thinking negatively can lead to you feeling low, down or anxious. The more those thoughts fill your mind, and the more time, energy and focus you give them, the worse you can end up feeling.

What’s more, the more low or anxious you feel, the more of those thoughts there tend to be, leading to a cycle of not feeling particularly great. You may also find yourself thinking about all the things that could go wrong and then talking yourself out of taking action on the things you want to do.

Your habitual thinking patterns develop over time and from experience. The more negatively you think, the more low, down, stressed and anxious you feel, and the more it colours and feeds into your attitude, expectations and how you typically think, feel, act and react.

That’s not to say that you should switch to always thinking positively and being uplifted into every moment. That could be equally exhausting and limiting. And there are times when it is reasonable and appropriate to feel a bit low or negative about some specific thing you are experiencing.

Yet the more you can undermine and replace habitual, unnecessary, casual negative thoughts, the more positive your mental attitude and mood will be, and you feel better in yourself. You can start to feel more positive about life, yourself and the future, and to feel self-assured enough to believe in yourself and your abilities, and to take action on your goals.

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